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By William Chester Jordan
A story of 2 Monasteries takes an exceptional examine one of many nice rivalries of the center a while and gives it as a revealing lens by which to view the intertwined histories of medieval England and France. this is often the 1st e-book to systematically examine Westminster Abbey and the abbey of Saint-Denis--two of an important ecclesiastical associations of the 13th century--and to take action during the lives and competing careers of the 2 males who governed them, Richard de Ware of Westminster and Mathieu de Vend?me of Saint-Denis.
Esteemed historian William Jordan weaves a panoramic narrative of the social, cultural, and political heritage of the interval. It used to be an age of uprising and crusades, of inventive and architectural innovation, of remarkable political reform, and of annoying foreign diplomacy--and Richard and Mathieu, in a single approach or one other, performed very important roles in these kind of advancements. Jordan strains their upward thrust from imprecise backgrounds to the top ranks of political authority, Abbot Richard turning into royal treasurer of britain, and Abbot Mathieu two times serving as a regent of France in the course of the crusades. by way of allowing us to appreciate the advanced relationships the abbots and their rival associations shared with one another and with the kings and social networks that supported and exploited them, A story of 2 Monasteries paints a shiny portrait of medieval society and politics, and of the bold males who stimulated them so profoundly.
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The end result was the Treaty of Meaux-Paris of 1229. 62 While Raymond VII’s principal patri61 62 Richard, Saint Louis, pp. 36–49. , pp. 96–101. 14 CHAPTER I mony, the county of Toulouse, was formally recognized by treaty as his of right, the count nevertheless lost to the crown and to other princes and lords considerable lands his father had once held, including large territories in Provence. He also had to agree that his heir, a girl, Jeanne, would marry Louis IX’s younger brother, Alphonse. Such a marriage, in the best-case scenario for the French crown, presaged an eventual Capetian, though not necessarily royal, succession in the county of Toulouse.
133–95. 57 In general, see Lambert, Cathars, but one of the best correctives, separating what we know about the beliefs and activities of the good men and women and what orthodox churchmen and most later historians have imputed to them, is Pegg’s Corruption of Angels. 54 12 CHAPTER I tics by peaceful means that provoked a Crusade against them and their alleged protectors in 1209, but a series of incidents, culminating in the murder of a papal legate, that did. Pope Innocent III blamed the greatest lord in the south, Count Raymond VI of Toulouse, for the murder (a charge the count always denied) and implicitly for the failure of the various missions to prevent the slide away from orthodox Catholicism.
At this juncture Isabelle inspired her husband, Hugues de la Marche (son of the original fiance´ from whom John had snatched her), to join with a number of other disgruntled magnates and rebel against Louis IX. It was this conspiracy that Henry III decided to join; Count Raymond VII of Toulouse and other southern barons also thought of joining and in some cases did. Efforts to stave off a violent confrontation were unsuccessful. The French—regarding the rebellion, let alone the intervention of Henry III and a few other barons, as nothing less than an attempt to unwrite the triumphant history of the last forty years—sent an army as numerous as the locusts of the air and led by Louis IX himself to overwhelm the enemy.